Yearning Quotes

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

We are the total of our longings.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.